Professor Roland Clift, OBE. Professor of environmental technology, University of Surrey; formerly commissioner, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. For services to the environment. (Godalming, Surrey)

Professor Alan Hutchinson Fairlamb. Professor of biochemistry, University of Dundee. For services to medical science. (Dundee)

Professor Timothy David van Zwanenberg. Professor, postgraduate general practice and director, postgraduate general practice education, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. For services to healthcare. (Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear)